Ho Chi Minh City: A company discovered using tons of expired protein powder ingredients

For using expired protein powder to produce finished products, this company was fined nearly 3 billion VND by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and forced to destroy all raw materials and products.

Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Thi Dieu Thuy has just signed a decision to impose an administrative penalty on GODWAYPHARMA Company Limited (headquartered on Bui Cong Trung Street, Nhi Binh Commune, Hoc Mon District, chaired by Mr. VXH) for using expired protein powder to produce products. The total fine is more than 2.9 billion VND.

According to the report of the Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City, GODWAYPHARMA Company Limited used expired ingredients or ingredients without expiration dates for ingredients that are required to have expiration dates.

The website godwaypharma.com advertises products and treatment regimens to cure cancer. PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

Accordingly, at the time of inspection, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety discovered that GODWAYPHARMA Company Limited used the raw material of Prozymax natural chocolate-flavored protein powder (lot number 5 03 23 HH; best before February 2025) to produce 2 products. These are P1 natural chocolate-flavored protein powder (product self-declaration No. 01/GODWAYPHARMA/2024) and pHSP natural chocolate-flavored protein powder (product self-declaration No. 02/GODWAYPHARMA/2024) which were expired. The total value of the violating products is more than 1.94 billion VND.

Specifically, the P1 natural chocolate flavored protein powder product is 49 boxes (24 boxes/box x 20 packs/box x 25 g/pack), totaling 588 kg.

pHSP natural chocolate flavored protein powder product is 59 cartons (24 cartons x 20 packs/box x 25 g/pack), total 708 kg.

The quantity of expired Prozymax protein powder natural chocolate flavor (batch number 5 03 23 HH; best before date February 2025) in stock is 3,804 kg.

Cancer treatment advertisements on the website godwaypharma.com. PHOTO: SCREENSHOT

Remedial measures: force GODWAYPHARMA Company Limited to destroy violating raw materials and food. The time limit for implementing remedial measures is 10 days from the date of receipt of the decision.

After the deadline for implementing remedial measures expires, GODWAYPHARMA Company Limited is required to send the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety a written report on the results of implementing remedial measures.

All costs of implementing remedial measures shall be paid by the company.

Thanh Nien Newspaper reporters visited a website called godwaypharma.com and discovered that this site advertised a lot of content about cancer treatment. In particular, there was content: Godwaypharma has researched and launched the drug product pHSP with a personalized treatment regimen, thanks to in-depth knowledge of Eastern regenerative medicine to completely cure cancer.

Source: https://ttbc-hcm.gov.vn/tp-hcm-phat-hien-mot-cong-ty-su-dung-hang-tan-nguyen-lieu-bot-dam-het-han-1018681.html